She was an important worker with the Public Service Association of NSW becoming the president of its women's clerical sub-section.
The women's clerical sub-section had been formed the year before by Beveridge who would later serve as its secretary and president.
[1] During the Great Depression years, 1930 to 1945, the Public Service Association of NSW fought a rearguard action to protect members and conducted campaigns to maintain jobs.
In October 1937 the Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act increased the basic salary to £3 16s per week.
[1] Kathleen Clare O'Keeffe, Beveridge and others lobbied to have women who were qualified public servants to be given permanent and not temporary contracts.